French Cuff Shirts

[Count Orlok]

It depends on the person. Some guys can definitely pull off the french cuff because they are stylish in general Then there are the guys who just do it as an affectation. There is a big difference. Personally, I would be more critical of someone wearing a button down collar with a tie than someone wearing french cuffs. One is decidedly unstylish, while the latter is at least making an attempt to be stylish. Personally, I would probably be more critical of someone who has made over 500 posts on this board -- because number of posts is probably inversely proportional to time spent with the ladies.

Maybe I am some hick from bfe, but is wearing a button down collar with a tie really that bad? I have done this for years because most of the sale shirts at jc penny are like that. Geez, I should probably start watching 90210 or something to find this stuff out.

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[switcheroo1]

This thread is funny by the way. First, I do have a couple french cuffed shirts, so am not overall opposed to them. With that said, you are going into dentistry and not investment banking, you want to look modest around patients, and not like the guy in it for the money (trust is huge, as is modesty). Yes, stylish or not, you wear french cuffed shirts around patients (or many classmates), and I believe that they will think you are there for the money only. Even if this is true, you don't want them to know. I say dress well, but try to avoid things that make you look ostentatious. Also, at my school, during your first two years, if you see patients (or are around them at least), you must wear scrubbs. It isn't until your 3rd and 4th year that you can deviate from that, and are allowed to wear slacks and a collared shirt (not sure if anyone does though).

One thing that you predents straight out of college better be ready for ... these days, there a lot of career changers entering medicine and dentistry. They are entering in record #'s because their applications are much stronger than the typical applicant straight out of state college X. Many of them will be wearing french cuff shirts -- because they can afford them, and because they can pull it off as older guys.

 

[lotexigeus]

this is the dumbest thread ever.

just wear scrubs and learn

 

[ElectraOnAzalea]

i just want to contribute to the two page long thread on french cuff shirts. 🙄

 

[The Good Dude]

One thing that you predents straight out of college better be ready for ... these days, there a lot of career changers entering medicine and dentistry. They are entering in record #'s because their applications are much stronger than the typical applicant straight out of state college X. Many of them will be wearing french cuff shirts -- because they can afford them, and because they can pull it off as older guys.

This statement is an affront to young dental students across the nation who also aspire to dress like douchebags.

 

[theroadshow]

This statement is an affront to young dental students across the nation who also aspire to dress like douchebags.

This will get settled the way everything else in this world does: If the french-cuff wearing ex-investment bankers get more girls, then french cuffs are superior. If the straight-outta-college barrel cuffers get the girls, then they win.

 

[JamesOSU]

No offense, but it is definitely a fashion faux pas to wear a button down collar with a tie. There is mass consensus on that one.

I learn something new on this forum everyday. I never knew I had to wear a jacket if I was going to wear a shirt+tie. I've also never worn a shirt+tie without a jacket, but I might have later, and I'm glad that I will now avert that fashion disaster 😱.

Thank you SDN.

So, to clarify, you can't wear a shirt+tie under your lab coat? Or does that coat count as the jacket?

Like this guy:

 

[Mattgk50]

They are my lucky cuff-links and hence they never failed me in the luck aspect since I got accepted at every school I interviewed at.

Right...your "lucky" cuff-links are the reason you got accepted.

 

[bigstix808]

This statement is an affront to young dental students across the nation who also aspire to dress like douchebags.

i'm curious as to why someone that wears french cuff shirts makes them a D-bag?

then i just feel like an idiot because i had no idea that i was actually a d-bag...i mean, its on SDN, its GOTTA be true

 

[NyCzPeter]

Right...your "lucky" cuff-links are the reason you got accepted.

I'd like to think so. How do you know they weren't the reason?

 

[MichaelVicksDog]

Like that one dude said, button down shirt with a tie is a no no. In fact, my interviewer at one of the schools made fun of a previous applicant who was sporting the button down shirt and a tie with a suit. He just shook his head in disgust, these guys can't even dress themsleves

Shirt with a tie without a jacket is more acceptable although you might look like a 6th grader on the day of his history presentation.

Shirt with a tie with the white coat is of course perfectly fine and looks very professional. But if you're a dentist, you're doing physical **** so it's probably not a good look to wear something so restricting. If you're like an orthodontist and you don't have to get your hands dirty, shirt with a tie under a white coat would be great.

French cuff aka double cuff is usually associated with wealth. Kinda gives the wearer an heir of arrogance. So it would be kind of frowned upon for a young person in even the most appropriate fields like business, law, banking, etc to wear French cuff shirts. Even if they are plain white, french cuff shirts tend to be a little bit more ostentatious. For instance, a French cuff shirt is a big no no for interviews. Not just dental school interviews but interviews at a law firm or an investment bank.

But that's just a traditional and conservative view. It's like saying you shouldn't have sex before marriage. Get outta here with that garbage. In fact, I think it would actually be a good idea for dental students to wear a shirt and tie when they see patients. It makes you look more professional and it'll be easier for patients to trust you and respect your authority. Who wouldn't feel safer with a student who looks well put together in a shirt and tie over a scrub ass disheveled dude with a raggedy polo shirt on and abercrombie cargos and ****?

 

[MichaelVicksDog]

I forgot to mention that all of the interviewers I had at the Ivy Leage schools (Harvard, UPenn, and Columbia) wore French cuff shirts. Only one of the interviewers was wearing a suit. The others didn't even have a tie on, if I recall correctly. I found that kind of amusing.

It's also a REGIONAL thing. West coast dudes tend to dress down and sportier than the east coast dudes who tend to dress up and classier. A blazer with khakis would be considered dressing up in California where as a full suit with a tie would be considered dressing up in New York.

 

[achilles2]

Like that one dude said, button down shirt with a tie is a no no. In fact, my interviewer at one of the schools made fun of a previous applicant who was sporting the button down shirt and a tie with a suit. He just shook his head in disgust, these guys can't even dress themsleves

Shirt with a tie without a jacket is more acceptable although you might look like a 6th grader on the day of his history presentation.

Shirt with a tie with the white coat is of course perfectly fine and looks very professional. But if you're a dentist, you're doing physical **** so it's probably not a good look to wear something so restricting. If you're like an orthodontist and you don't have to get your hands dirty, shirt with a tie under a white coat would be great.

French cuff aka double cuff is usually associated with wealth. Kinda gives the wearer an heir of arrogance. So it would be kind of frowned upon for a young person in even the most appropriate fields like business, law, banking, etc to wear French cuff shirts. Even if they are plain white, french cuff shirts tend to be a little bit more ostentatious. For instance, a French cuff shirt is a big no no for interviews. Not just dental school interviews but interviews at a law firm or an investment bank.

But that's just a traditional and conservative view. It's like saying you shouldn't have sex before marriage. Get outta here with that garbage. In fact, I think it would actually be a good idea for dental students to wear a shirt and tie when they see patients. It makes you look more professional and it'll be easier for patients to trust you and respect your authority. Who wouldn't feel safer with a student who looks well put together in a shirt and tie over a scrub ass disheveled dude with a raggedy polo shirt on and abercrombie cargos and ****?

damn son you just killed my style

lulz

 

[MichaelVicksDog]

damn son you just killed my style

lulz

lulwut

 

[makushin]

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[Fulcrum77]

I normally wear a button-down-collared shirt with a tie and it has french cuffs and a chest pocket!! All of this without a jacket!!

OMG I'M SCREWED!! SOMEONE HELP ME!! I'M NEVER GOING TO MAKE IT IN DENTISTRY OR LIFE!!!

 

[DrJeff]

If you want to pay some $$ and go for the snazzy wardrobe, bling cuffs and all, feel free. It will end up looking great for most of you with pit sweat stains from being under that hot, protective gown you'll likely be wearing all day as you run from patient to patient and room to room trying to avoid aerosol splatter, and that doesn't even get into the occasional blood splatter and/or hypochlorite drop that inevitably will find it's way past the gown and onto your presumably equally $$ pair of pants😱😡.

Many, many dentists will start out, or atleast go through a phase of their careers, where they'll dress up for work. A signficant amount of these folks will end up going back to either scrubs or atleast "business casual" for both comfort reasons and often "fabric stain" issues.

Personally if I get a little hypchlorite spray on my $20 pair of scrub pants I'm not going to be mad for 1 second. Now if I was wearing a $100 pair of "dress" pants, that newly created white area that resembles a shape commonly seen in a rorschach test isn't going to make me a happy camper.

Nice, high cotton content scrubs and a pair of comfy sneakers. IMHO you can't beat that combo!😀

 

[War Eagle]

I hope you aren't saying that you wear short sleeve dress shirts?

What's wrong with that? Plenty of classy guys wear them. Here are a couple examples:

 

[JamesOSU]

I've never seen Dog write something a) so long and b) so... grammatically correct?? I'm impressed. Some of your comments kind of confused me though:

"made fun of a previous applicant who was sporting the button down shirt and a tie with a suit."

He had a shirt, tie, and suit? i thought this was the acceptable combo??? Is a button down like a Polo shirt? In that case that would be absurd. So many contradicting statements in your first paragraph I just can't get it straight.

 

[MichaelVicksDog]

I've never seen Dog write something a) so long and b) so... grammatically correct?? I'm impressed. Some of your comments kind of confused me though:

"made fun of a previous applicant who was sporting the button down shirt and a tie with a suit."

He had a shirt, tie, and suit? i thought this was the acceptable combo??? Is a button down like a Polo shirt? In that case that would be absurd. So many contradicting statements in your first paragraph I just can't get it straight.

Well my good sir, as someone who resides in Ohio, you wouldn't understand much of the sartorial blunders I so eloquently described in my previous post. Have no fear though, it seems like you will graduate and fit in just perfectly with the rest of the awfully dressed "professionals" that make up the majority of our field. Button down shirts have collars that are buttoned down. They are sporty shirts that you should not be wearing with a tie and a suit. It is however, acceptable with a blazer or a sport coat.

Some of you lads have complained about my rather urban style of writing, displaying concerns over how I would earn the trust of my future patients while talking "ghetto." But as important as mannerisms are, part of being a professional is dressing like one. Everyone has different standards but I hope that your crude taste in sartorial matters changes in the future.